column-count

The column-count CSS property describes the number of columns of a multicol container.

Syntax

CSS

column-count: value;

JS

object.style.columnCount = "value";

Values

<'column-count'> = auto | <integer [1,∞]>

auto

Automatically specified by the user agent.

<integer>

Specifies one or more decimal digits (0-9).

Initial

auto

<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
    <button onmouseover="myfunction(innerHTML)">initial</button>
    <button onmouseover="myfunction(innerHTML)">auto</button>
    <button onmouseover="myfunction(value)" value="3">integer</button>
    <p>column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count</p>
    <script>
        function myfunction(myparameter)
        {
            document.querySelector("p").style.columnCount = myparameter;
        }
    </script>
</body>
</html>

4 · JS · Internal

<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
    <button>initial</button>
    <button>auto</button>
    <button value="3">integer</button>
    <p>column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count column-count</p>
    <script>
        function myfunction(myparameter)
        {
            document.querySelector("p").style.columnCount = myparameter;
        }
        const myelements = document.querySelectorAll("button");
        for(let myelement of myelements)
        {
            let myargument = myelement.innerHTML;
            if(myelement.value)
            {
                myargument = myelement.value;
            }
            myelement.addEventListener("mouseover", function(){myfunction(myargument)});
        }
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Syntax

CSS

JS

Values

Initial

Examples

1 · auto

2 · integer

3 · JS · Inline

4 · JS · Internal

Links

Properties

External